We loaded out of Chongqing last night and the process is getting a little better. There was still a little wait time between tasks and the crew was even worse than Chengdu. The best part is that we worked with a bunch of guys that are apparently union. I never would have thought that in a communist country they would have carpenter and truck loading unions. Sure enough, about an hour into the load out all 50 of the loaders stopped working and started fighting with the promoter. Apparently the promoter didn’t pay them, and thus they walked off our call. Normally we have 100 locals loading us in, and this load out we had 50 guys. All problems aside, we had a 6 hour load out.
While sitting in the airport to fly from Chongqing to Wuhan (20 or so hours by car, only 2 hours by plane) I caught on to another culture difference. Kids clothing here have slits down the ass end of there pants so that kids can just shit anywhere. Yep, it is about a 6” opening in there pants that allow them to let the whole world see there genitals. So instead of just your mom and dad saying that they saw your “penis” when you were a baby, the entire world can declare that they have seen it. I have explained about how they have squatters here, instead of regular toilets. But when it comes to little kids, instead of taking them into a bathroom or using diapers, they just resort to floors and trash cans. If I was joking about this, it wouldn’t even be funny. Just sayin’.
We are now in Wuhan for 2 weeks and it is awesome to be in one place for so long. However we have yet to find much of anything in the way of food or entertainment. There is a famous “crane tower” here, but I have yet to go and explore that. We are heading out tonight to explore a steak house that my friends on 42nd street ranted and raved about and then off to the “bar street”. Since tomorrow will be a day off, it should be a fun night.
On another note, we have gotten a new and more finalized schedule for the next few months. Some cities In China pulled out, some were added. The other countries that are being looked into are Singapore/ Taiwan/ Russia/ Thailand/ Korea/ Dubai/ India. Cross your fingers cause I am really looking forward to those countries.
While sitting in the airport to fly from Chongqing to Wuhan (20 or so hours by car, only 2 hours by plane) I caught on to another culture difference. Kids clothing here have slits down the ass end of there pants so that kids can just shit anywhere. Yep, it is about a 6” opening in there pants that allow them to let the whole world see there genitals. So instead of just your mom and dad saying that they saw your “penis” when you were a baby, the entire world can declare that they have seen it. I have explained about how they have squatters here, instead of regular toilets. But when it comes to little kids, instead of taking them into a bathroom or using diapers, they just resort to floors and trash cans. If I was joking about this, it wouldn’t even be funny. Just sayin’.
We are now in Wuhan for 2 weeks and it is awesome to be in one place for so long. However we have yet to find much of anything in the way of food or entertainment. There is a famous “crane tower” here, but I have yet to go and explore that. We are heading out tonight to explore a steak house that my friends on 42nd street ranted and raved about and then off to the “bar street”. Since tomorrow will be a day off, it should be a fun night.
On another note, we have gotten a new and more finalized schedule for the next few months. Some cities In China pulled out, some were added. The other countries that are being looked into are Singapore/ Taiwan/ Russia/ Thailand/ Korea/ Dubai/ India. Cross your fingers cause I am really looking forward to those countries.
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OK, that's just sick. Garbage cans?!
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